The Union Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Shri Ananth Kumar today
presented the Sixth National Awards for Technology in Innovation in
Petrochemicals and downstream Plastics Processing Industry in New Delhi.
The Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilizers, Shri HansrajGangaramAhir
was also present in the function.

Complementing the awardees, Shri Ananth Kumar said that there is so much talent
in the country in the sector, and there is need to harness, map and support
them so that there are more innovations, and Research and Development
activities. He said that considering the huge requirement of skilled manpower
in the petrochemical sector, the Government has decided to set up 100 CIPETs
(Central Institutes for Plastic Engineering and Technology). He said that the
country needs more value addition of the refinery output so that the polymer
industry grows up fast, and creates new products and does import substitution.
The Minister stressed on the need of launching awareness campaign about the
benefits and range of polymer products, and also of recycling and reusing them.
He said that the Government will provide the full support to the petrochemical
industry. In this regard, he added, that a lot of work has been done on reverse
SEZs with a few countries.

The Government of India had announced the National policy on
Petrochemicals in April, 2007, with the objective of developing value
added, quality Petrochemical products at globally competitive prices. To
achieve these objectives, an award scheme was set up to incentivize meritorious
innovation and inventions in the field of Polymeric materials, products,
processes and other areas of national and social importance. The awards
are given for outstanding contribution to R&D, leading to less energy
consumption, better plastic waste management, increase in product life cycle,
development of innovative new products, quality standards, recycling and other
emerging areas.

Central Institute of Plastics Engineering and Technology (CIPET), an autonomous
organization under Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals, implements the
scheme of the national awards. For the sixth national awards, 264
nominations were received, 17 of which have been selected as winners and 14 as
runners up for 2015-16. The list of the awardees is enclosed.

YKB/PB

Annexure

National Awards
for Technology Innovation 2015-16

The following 17 nominations
are “WINNERS”for theNational Awards for Technology Innovation
2015-16: